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Samsung is in a device-making frenzy. Today, pictures of the rumored Galaxy Note 8 hit the interwebz, provoking a kind of “wait, another..whaddaya call it?” moment. The Galaxy Note 8 will be toting an 8 inch screen, which is a little bigger than the quasi standard 7″ tablets that we have seen from manufacturers across…
Geeksphone and Mozilla announced today that they will be teaming up to release smartphones featuring Mozilla’s Firefox OS, offering two developer preview handsets that will assist developers in prepping for the release of the new platform. The units are expected to be available in February, and the cost of the units have yet to be revealed.…
When we first heard about Motorola’s upcoming Motorola X superphone in December, we didn’t get many details except for that it was in the works. Thanks to an unnamed source from Droid Life’s forums, some new information has come to light, alluding to what Google and Motorola are cooking up for 2013. The Motorola X…
Galaxy S4 rumors are abundant these days, and some newly released details are making Samsung enthusiasts ecstatic. A new picture has been released, giving us an idea what the new phone may look like. Reports indicate that the handset could be announced in March at an “Unpacking” event followed by an April launch. Samsung is planning to ship the “Altius”…
Shutterfly, a photo and personal publishing company, today re-launched its Treat application for iOS. Treat is a mobile greeting card application that directly competes with Apple’s Cards app. The main function of the application is to allow users to customize a variety of greeting cards, and optionally send a gift card, for special occasions. Another…
More photos of the HTC Sense 5 custom user interface are popping up on the Droid DNA. Apparently, there are users with access to this unreleased version of Sense, so more and more screenshots are beginning to leak out. An XDA member, who goes by the name of mdeejay, has just put up several screenshots…
CyanogenMod 10.1 Milestone 1 ROMs are now available for Nexus and Samsung devices. For those of you not familiar with this kind of ROM, allow for me to break down the geek/techie lingo. This Milestone 1 version is an unofficial Android 4.2 build deemed “mostly stable” and good enough for daily use, unlike the Nightly…
Verizon is fresh off another impressive quarter that saw the company bring in 2.2 million retail net customers, of which 2.1M were lucrative retail postpaid connections. The largest wireless provider in the United States seen revenues hit $20.0 billion in fourth-quarter 2012, up 9.5 percent year over year. Big Red also wanted to let everyone…
We’ve told you that the LG Optimus G Pro is coming and voila – it has been announced in Japan at the time when most of the world still waits to get the Optimus G. As you can imagine, the G Pro builds on its predecessor to include a bigger, 5-inch screen with full HD…
Huawei is seriously trying to make other handset makers suffer. Their latest phone, Ascend G615, has been announced in Germany, offering a 4.5-inch 720p HD screen and 1.4GHz quad-core CPU for 300 EUR. That’s an awesome deal for such a powerful device! In addition, it also comes with an 8-megapixel rear camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facing one,…